Chief regulators meet in Brussels this week to discuss whether or not Google’s competitive strategies are to be litigated, mitigated, penalized, or ignored.
Revisions to a proposed Senate bill stirred public outcry last week. Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been leading an effort to update federal surveillance laws that date back to the 1980′s. The 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) did not anticipate the rise of social media or cloud-based storage.
If the reports are true, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may not have the ammunition to proceed with an anti-trust case versus Google.